Mark SchaeferinDelivering the CommonwealthDelivering the Commonwealth | 2 Makindi | iThanga ElideA sample chapter from the forthcoming novel Delivering the Commonwealth: Master Gunnery Sergeant Benjamin Makindi faces the alien invaders.11 min read·4 days ago----
Mark SchaeferinDelivering the CommonwealthDelivering the Commonwealth | PrologA sample chapter from the forthcoming novel Delivering the Commonwealth: the prolog and alien invasion.12 min read·4 days ago----
Mark SchaeferA Sci-fi Story by StagesFor the last sixteen years, I have been writing a science fiction novel. I’ve started at least half a dozen such efforts over the years…2 min read·Dec 10, 2023----
Mark SchaeferHow to Foil the AI UprisingTurns out they suck at jokes and crosswords10 min read·Jul 21, 2023----
Mark SchaeferThe Good News according to Mark — Some, uh, TheologicaNearly twenty-two years ago, I set out on what I thought would be a fun intellectual exercise: translate the Gospel of Mark into a new…6 min read·Mar 18, 2023----
Mark SchaeferThe Shitty Theology Along I-95 — Some, uh, TheologicaThere are a lot of religious-themed billboards along I-95 in the south—and they’re all terrible.10 min read·Mar 10, 2023----
Mark SchaeferOn Christian AgnosticismI’m going to be honest about what my true religious tradition that embraces faithful doubt is, then I suppose “Christian Agnostic” will do.4 min read·Oct 28, 2022----
Mark SchaeferThis article suffers from Christopher Hitchens Syndrome: the conflation of religion with God.It's amazing how many of these articles I read as a Christian agreeing with everything up until the last proposition. All of them take a…1 min read·Sep 27, 2022--1--1
Mark SchaeferUncertainty, Metaphor, and CommunityPeople speaking religious truths imagine themselves to be speaking literal truths despite their own use of powerful metaphors2 min read·Aug 22, 2022----